Monday, 13 May 2024

Right to recline? American Airlines seat reclining debacle divides internet

A hairy situation involving a reclined airplane seat has taken off online, sparking the debate: do we really have the right to recline?

Video footage shared to Twitter on Feb. 8 shows a man seated behind a woman on an American Airlines flight, in the very back row. He’s seen continuously bumping the back of her chair with his hand after she reclines it.

(Since he’s seated in the very back row of the plane, he doesn’t have the luxury of reclining his own chair.)

“Here’s a great jackhole! He was angry that I reclined my seat and punched it about nine times, hard, at which point I began videoing him and he resigned to his behaviour,” the woman tweeted.

“The other jackhole is the @AmericanAir flight attendant who reprimanded me and offered him rum.”

Flying on airplanes is generally uncomfortable for all passengers involved, but Twitter is seriously divided over who was in the wrong in this particular situation.

The airline responded to the woman’s complaint on Twitter, asking her to privately message them. In response, she wrote back: “You clearly want me to do this quietly through a DM. I’m done being quiet!

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